skinhead vs tough

tough vs skinhead

skinhead and tough both are nouns.

skinhead is not an adjective while tough is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
skinhead	Yes	No	No	No
tough	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, tough is a hypernym of skinhead; that is, tough is a word with a broader meaning than skinhead:

skinhead: a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent
tough: a cruel and brutal fellow

Other hypernyms of skinhead include bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, yob, yobbo, yobo.

skinhead (noun)	tough (noun)
a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent	an aggressive and violent young criminal
a person whose head is bald or shaved	a cruel and brutal fellow
	someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

skinhead (adjective)	tough (adjective)
	resistant to cutting or chewing
	physically toughened
	not given to gentleness or sentimentality
	unfortunate or hard to bear
	substantially made or constructed
	feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
	violent and lawless
	very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
	making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

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